CoinVoice has learned that, according to The Block, the Ethereum mainnet successfully activated the Pectra upgrade at 6:05 AM Eastern Time, marking the most significant network update since the Merge in 2022.
This hard fork includes 11 EIP improvement proposals, mainly focusing on three major directions: improving staking efficiency, optimizing user experience, and enhancing Layer2 scalability. The successful deployment of the testnet Hoodi in March laid the foundation for this upgrade. Pectra lays the groundwork for the Fusaka upgrade, which will introduce key technologies such as Verkle Trees and PeerDAS.
Among the highlights of this upgrade is the EIP-7702 account abstraction proposal, which allows regular wallets to temporarily execute smart contract functions. In the future, users will be able to experience innovations such as third-party payment of Gas fees, bulk transaction packaging, and even recovering lost private keys through social contacts. In terms of the staking mechanism, the ETH staking limit for a single validator node has been significantly increased from 32 to 2048, and institutional stakers can reduce operational complexity through node merging.
For Layer2 scalability, the Blob data capacity per block has doubled to 6 (peaking at 9), and the proto-danksharding technology based on last year's Dencun upgrade has continued to deepen, which is expected to reduce transaction costs on Rollup chains like Arbitrum by over 90%. The technical team also addressed several long-standing pain points: the activation time for validator nodes has been reduced from 12 hours to 13 minutes, the execution layer can directly control node exits to enhance key security, and historical block hash data is stored on-chain, enhancing the reliability of decentralized oracles. [Original link]